Magnetic crystals and Alzheimer's...

[Mr. Turquoise]

Imagine my surprise when I first saw the headline of this story:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993611

Turns out that iron oxide levels in the brain are linked to Alzheimer's disease. Interesting stuff, and another reason to stop taking those iron supplements...

Mr. Turquoise

 

[teddygrahams]

Is that why Popeye always forgets to take his spinach before he fights Bluto ?

 

[corplinx]

too litte iron and you become anemic, too much and you get alzheimer

i wonder where the happy moderate level is

 

[arcticpenguin]

Write on the chalkboard 100 times:

Correlation is not causality.

If it pans out, the diagnostic aspect could be quite useful though.